All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 179
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Martin Pawley
During his time as editor (1992-96) Martin Pawley challenged the conventional art historical analysis of the built environment, and pioneered the transformation of World Architecture into “the business magazine for the global architect”. He still airs his views in Polemic every issue.
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The London Rich
The London RichPeter ThoroldViking£25The rich, whether in the Testaments or the tabloids, have always had a bad press. Maybe it is because, like the defeated, they do not write the books to give their side of the story. Maybe they deserve the calumny, but what they do not deserve is ...
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Saltdean Lido
Thirties lidos are enjoying a new audience of devotees who appreciate their architecture if not the spartan conditions.
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Lofty ideals
The aesthetics and history of loft living, plus a polemic for combining architecture with a study of nature, and a history of London's rich.
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Metal hits the roof
Many of the 1990s' most acclaimed projects owe their signatures to either exotic alloys such as titanium, or mass-produced materials like aluminium and steel. With sales of metal roofing systems at 25 times their 1960 level, this report asks whether the metal roof is poised to be the next big ...
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Game plan
Left to its own devices Rare, one of the most successful computer games companies in the world, would have chosen a traditional building – ideally a stately home – for its new headquarters. Feilden Clegg had to persuade it otherwise.
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Fortune telling
Size matters, according to this year's employment and earnings survey, which shows that more architects are employed in large firms and it is this group that is likely to earn more.Sole principals and partners in small firms are paying dearly for the freedom that comes with running their own businesses. ...
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Expert opinion
Dr John Connaughton, a partner in Davis Langdon Consultancy and currently chairman of the Construction Industry Council Innovation and Research Committee, sheds some light on this year's findings.
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Home economics
Walter Menteth Architects has combined a 'polemical exercise in cheap housing' with an experiment with materials – both natural and man-made – to produce an abstract, self-contained house in South London.
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The Early Years
From 1989 to 1995 the work of IAA (International Academy of Architecture) masters including Jean Nouvel, was published alongside essays from academics and architects.
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Will it be the past or the future for Dublin?
When it comes to economic miracles, size doesn’t count. For years Germany was Europe’s wunderland, but only until reunification, when its size increased by a third. The same happened in East Asia, where Japan held the lead until the 1990s crash, when it turned out that little Taiwan had been ...
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Living his dream
Two years after the opening of Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum Frank Gehry is still architecture’s hottest property, captivating critics and public alike – including WA’s anniversary jury. The recipient of last year’s AIA Gold Medal, and the latest American architect (since Louis Kahn) to be hailed a creative genius, Gehry has ...
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Piping cool
Fitzroy Robinson is using a pioneering technique that takes the lessons learned from passive ventilation a step further. The result is an energy-efficient solution to keep temperatures comfortable at an office building in Basildon.
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Ch-ch-ch-ch- changes
How has the practice of architecture changed in the ten years since World Architecture was launched? In conversation with Arthur Gensler, Nicholas Grimshaw and Ivor Daniel and Jacques Glanville of Stauch Vorster, World Architecture finds out how architects have adapted to a decade of political and economic turmoil.
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Rock of cages
Gabion walls, a civil engineering technique using rock-filled wire cages and thought to have been invented by the Egyptians, are now being incorporated into buildings.
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Are you being served?
Architectural magazines have traditionally reflected the preoccupations and ideals of a generation. So do today's magazines – where populism is often valued over insight and designer trendyness over weighty reflection – mean that today's architect is more interested in pretty photos than ideas?
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Evolutionary Architecture
Evolutionary ArchitectureEugene TsuiJohn Wiley & Sons£35.50This thought-provoking work, part textbook, part manifesto, examines the benefits to be gained from the synthesis of architecture with the study of the structural and performance efficiency of living organisms and their created environments.The book is separated into three sections. The first is the thesis ...
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The American Dream
From 1995 to 1998 World Architecture focused its profiles on the dominant US firms, which were first to catch on to the benefits of globalisation for architects.
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Spirit of the age
Between 1981 and 1995 France alone saw 400 museums created or renovated. The 1990s have witnessed the reinvention of the museum as a celebration of national culture and barometer of economic wealth, as architects from Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano to Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind have been inspired to ...